{"id":2451421,"date":"2019-11-21T20:40:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T03:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/glenwood-to-aspen-light-rail-is-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T18:07:13","slug":"glenwood-to-aspen-light-rail-is-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/glenwood-to-aspen-light-rail-is-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenwood-to-Aspen light rail is the answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Regarding Toni Kronberg\u2019s letter supporting an aerial gondola (<a id=\"N0xeffb50N0x10bca00:N0xeffb50N0x10fa4d0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/visions-of-an-aerial-gondola-over-aspen\/\">\u201cVisions of an aerial gondola over Aspen,\u201d<\/a> Nov. 19, aspentimes.com): Toni! Your gondola idea might work between Snowmass Village and Aspen Mountain via Buttermilk-Highlands as a skier mover; but a more practical solution for the entire valley from Glenwood and Carbondale to Aspen is light rail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">We acquired the rail right-of-way years ago as a way to solve the Roaring Fork Valley\u2019s long-term transportation needs. Valley-wide light rail, combined with feeder busses, is the only practical solution to our valley-wide congestion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Jim Markalunas<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/glenwood-to-aspen-light-rail-is-the-answer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regarding Toni Kronberg\u2019s letter supporting an aerial gondola (\u201cVisions of an aerial gondola over Aspen,\u201d Nov. 19, aspentimes.com): Toni! Your gondola idea might work between Snowmass Village and Aspen Mountain via Buttermilk-Highlands as a skier mover; but a more practical solution for the entire valley from Glenwood and Carbondale to Aspen is light rail. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2451421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 05:23:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451461,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451421\/revisions\/2451461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}